What To Use Instead Of Tissue Paper If You Have An Absorbent Towel Sink?
Towel Sinks are an alternative to wasteful paper towels when you are doing dishes. That said, the steel in the sink bottom will rust when exposed to water or moisture if it is not under a granite countertop. Granite is porous and will absorb any liquids that fall on its surface, thus helping to protect your sink’s finish. Towel sinks allow you to use of an absorbent towel instead of tissue paper, but what do you use if you don’t have a granite top?
What To Use Instead Of Tissue Paper If You Have An Absorbent Towel Sink?
You can get away with using the same thing you use on your granite counters if your towel sink has stainless steel feet attached via screws at each corner on the bottom of the sink. You can also play a towel or two on top of your counter to catch any spills, but if you are washing dishes, this is not really practical. The next option most people come up with is using paper towels under the dish(es) they are washing; however, that causes its own problems especially if you lack an island where you can toss all that used paper into a receptacle.
If you don’t like the idea of rinsing out your towel/towels after each use (but who would?), try spraying them down thoroughly over the sink with Dawn soap and water every time after they soak up some liquid; it will also help kill germs at the time!
What To Use Instead Of Tissue Paper If You Have An Absorbent Towel Sink?
Other alternatives for what to use if you do not have an absorbent towel or granite countertop may be paper plates (unused, of course) or old newspapers cut into half-inch strips. Either one works very well on most metal sink surfaces; however, nothing beats using Dawn soap and water to rinse the towels thoroughly every time! A couple of cedar boards placed over your drain opening can also help prevent rusting; I use this method when my stainless steel towel stands up on its own away from the wall without any screws attaching it via corner brackets at each corner to the bottom of the sink. These days more than ever people are turning away from paper towels; they are wasteful and not very environmentally friendly.
What To Use Instead Of Tissue Paper If You Have An Absorbent Towel Sink?
By simply using an absorbent towel, you reduce your paper waste because you can just toss it into the washing machine along with other dish rags instead of throwing them away every time. What’s more, I have found that because I don’t have to use as many paper towels throughout my day, my monthly expenses for said items have gone down considerably! That is a huge plus since both our budget and Mother Earth are always happy when we do things like this.
What do you use instead of tissue paper if you have an absorbent towel sink? In a word: dishcloth. Got a box of old ones lying around? If not, keep that thing in the back of your mind for the next time you’re at the store and want to pick one up just for this purpose.
A quick look online shows that towels aren’t cheap, so buying spares isn’t out of the question especially if it saves you from having to replace precious washcloths later on down the line. You can also use rags or cloth diapers as substitutes but those options would require laundering afterward which kind of defeats the purpose here…though good-quality nursery cloths could be reusable later on as well. But towels are the cheapest and most common option, so that’s what we’ll go with.
Just take out a handful, throw them into your sink following your usual routine, then drain the water by pulling up on the plug instead of letting it all just pour down.
If you want to get even more technical, you can wash these towels separately but this isn’t really necessary if they’re not visibly dirty or smelly since they won’t come in contact with any exposed skin parts. If it makes you feel better though, knock yourself out…just hurry up about it so you don’t get caught rinsing your “special” towel too often! Of course, there are other ways to keep things clean in the bathroom but none of them are as efficient as this one.
Conclusion:
What do you use instead of tissue paper if you have an absorbent towel sink? If not towels, can’t think of anything. To be honest though…I’m kind of out of ideas here so maybe it’s time for me to try making my own dishcloth!